Ponder the predicament of having neither copy NOR CONTEXT of your words, if/when an outright Adversary or a see-something-say-something MEAN WELL-ER attaches you to damning verbatim text "out of context".

There is Activism that is serious about trying to produce results...success/failure is secondary in a have-no-choice RIGHTEOUS FIGHT . . . and there is Lifetime "Activism" that is AVOCATION, a.k.a. what one ENJOYS/prefers/chooses as a hobby/activity/"outside" interest.

Since I add this by the godsend EDIT feature, I obviously "hesitated to say" DEAD-SERIOUS precisely because "everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law" . . . if court is where you "find yourself".

Ironically, DEAD-SERIOUS is a term that did not attract notice for decades of my life. Now, when I hesitate to SAY THE WORD, one has only to look/think abroad...like Globalists do...to know that some Activists certainly ARE dead-serious. Or Establishment is deadly, take yer pick. Either way, many many "Liberty Activists" a.k.a. "Freedom Fighters" have died.

While I may have some fun with this, and have attended events/worked on projects/met people that have been great fun and uplifting in the process, at the end of the day, this is as serious as a heart attack to me.

The end is rapidly approaching, the line in the sand is clear, and it also clear that government is fully planning to step over that line, especially with regard to guns.

I will not comply.

And I understand all the ramifications of that statement, including the fact that if the forces of the state so chose, they would more than likely get the drop on me at oh-dark-thirty or quickly and quietly "black bag" me as walked down the street or carried out my day to day business rather than force a firefight, and allow a martyr to be created by going out in a valiant blaze of smoke and hot brass.

I suspect the future will hold for most of us that refuse to comply, the same future that Ed and Elaine Brown are living: locked up in a piss smelling federal rape cage, separated, sick and lonely, forgotten by all but of a few "fellow travelers" and refuseniks, taunted and badgered daily by their captors and our oppressors, until they both die.

Originally Posted by cheapseats

There is Activism that is serious about trying to produce results...success/failure is secondary in a have-no-choice RIGHTEOUS FIGHT . . . and there is Lifetime "Activism" that is AVOCATION, a.k.a. what one ENJOYS/prefers/chooses as a hobby/activity/"outside" interest.

Since I add this by the godsend EDIT feature, I obviously "hesitated to say" DEAD-SERIOUS precisely because "everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law" . . . if court is where you "find yourself".

Ironically, DEAD-SERIOUS is a term that did not attract notice for decades of my life. Now, when I hesitate to SAY THE WORD, one has only to look/think abroad...like Globalists do...to know that some Activists certainly ARE dead-serious. Or Establishment is deadly, take yer pick. Either way, many many "Liberty Activists" a.k.a. "Freedom Fighters" have died.

Except as to the rule of apportionment, the United States have an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.

There is at least one troll who was banned on the 14th and is no longer banned...

Originally Posted by The Rebel Poet

You talk of mountains and molehills; I find that ironic. To you, being called names for using unapproved speech is a "mountain," but Edward Snowden, the NSA, the War of Terror, higher taxes, racial profiling, government run healthcare and free housing are "molehills". That sort of confused misprioritazation is exactly what's wrong with Trump supporters.

Originally Posted by acptulsa

When your position is indefensible, a good offense becomes something more than 'the best defense'. It's the only defense.

Authoritarian regimes around the world are using technology from a Silicon Valley firm for Internet surveillance, filtering and censorship, according to a report by Canadian researchers.

The report this week from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab said devices from California-based security firm Blue Coat Systems were being used in China, Russia, Venezuela and other countries with “a history of concerns over human rights.”

“Our findings support the need for national and international scrutiny of Blue Coat implementations in the countries we have identified, and a closer look at the global proliferation of ‘dual-use’ information and communication technologies,” said the report.

“Internet service providers responsible for these deployments should consider publicly clarifying their function, and we hope Blue Coat will take this report as an opportunity to explain their due diligence process to ensure that their devices are not used in ways that violate human rights.”

Above all I think everyone needs to understand that neither the Bundys nor Finicum were militia or had prior military training. They were, first and foremost, Ranchers who had about all the shit they could take.

Originally Posted by HOLLYWOOD

If anything, this situation has proved the government is nothing but a dictatorship backed by deadly force... no different than the dictatorships in the banana republics, just more polished and cleverly propagandized.

"I'll believe in good cops when they start turning bad cops in."

Originally Posted by tod evans

In a free society there will be bigotry, and racism, and sexism and religious disputes and, and, and.......
I don't want to live in a cookie cutter, federally mandated society.
Give me messy freedom every time!